Far more legal than say, Obama drone strikes that killed non-USA civilians on their home territory.

But WaPo paints War Secretary, Pete Hegseth, as Emperor Palpatine "kill them all" who ordered follow-up strikes.

Except he didn't. "Hegseth didn’t order killing of boat strike survivors"

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/12/02/breaking-news/officials-hegseth-didnt-order-killing-of-boat-strike-survivors/

By Charlie Savage, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt and John Ismay / New York Times

Today

According to five U.S. officials, who spoke separately and on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that is under investigation, Hegseth, before the Sept. 2 attack, ordered a strike that would kill the people on the boat and destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs.

But, each official said, Hegseth’s directive did not specifically address what should happen if a first missile turned out not to fully accomplish all of those things. And, the officials said, his order was not a response to surveillance

[Adm. Frank M.] Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and then several follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat.

NYT has 5 anon officials, outranks WaPo 2 anon officials.

Lib on lib violence, u love to see it.

btw, Bradley is said to be same admiral who worked for Obama, on his strikes. If anything illegal, go after him?